APPENDIX. 



NOTES TO CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 6. Referring to Dearth of English Literature on Econ- 

 omy of Resources. The conceptions and ideas contained in 

 this chapter regarding the classification of natural resources 

 and the relation of the state to them were first formulated by 

 the writer in his Vice-Presidential Address before the Section 

 of Economic Science of the Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, entitled " The Providential Functions of Govern- 

 ment, with Special Reference to Natural Resources," and 

 printed in the volume of Proceedings for 1895. The econom- 

 ics of natural resources have received only incidental and 

 scanty consideration by English writers. The only publica- 

 tion known to the writer which discusses the subject in a 

 broad manner is by G. P. Osborne, " Principles of Eco- 

 nomics." The satisfaction of human wants in so far as their 

 satisfaction depends on material resources. Cincinnati. 1893. 



P. 9. The fact that " emotion rather than reason, senti- 

 ment rather than argument, are the prime movers of society " 

 has been most forcibly and convincingly argued by Lester F. 

 Ward in his " Psychic Factors of Civilization " and " Dynamic 

 Sociology." 



P. 16. Eminent Domain. In all modern states the right 

 of eminent domain (dominium emineus), i.e. the right of the 

 state to dispossess private owners or to restrict them in the 

 use of their property for the sake of the common weal, and 

 for public purposes, is well established. At first exercised 

 only by specific legislation in individual cases, since the end 

 of the eighteenth century the right of eminent domain has 



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